Peach cutting and stoning apparatus



UNTTED sTATEs PATENT onirica.

JOHN C. KUHN, OF BOONVILLE, ARKANSAS.

PEACH CUTTING AND STONING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 23,255, dated March 15, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN C. KUHN, of Boonville, in the county of Scott and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and Improved Implement or Device for Cutting Peaches and Remo-ving the Stones Therefrom; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, makinga part of this specification, in which- Figure l, is a vertical central section of my invention. Fig. 2, is a plan or top view of the same, the hand or pressing lever being removed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two gures.

This invention consists in the employment or use of two curved knives which cross each other and are attached to elastic bars, said knives being used in connection with a tube placed vertically within a box and a pressing lever, the whole being arranged as hereinafter fully shown and described, whereby peaches may be cut and the stones removed therefrom and separated one from the other at one and the same operation.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention I will proceed to describe it.

A, represents a rectangular box of suitable dimensions and B, is a vertical tube of slightly conical form which is placed centrally within the box A. C, is a board which is placed on the upper part of the box A, and permanently secured to it. The board C, has a circular opening a, made through its center, said opening being concentric with the top of the tube B, the upper end of which extends about half way through the opening. The opening a, is considerably larger in diameter than the top of the tube B, as shown clearly in both iigures. To the upper surface of the board C, two elastic or spring bars D, D, are attached by screws Z9, o, the bars being attached to the board, one near each end, as shown plainly in 2. Two blocks c, c, are also secured to the upper surface of the board C, and through each block a screw CZ, passes, said screws bearing against the bars D, D.

To the inner ends of bars D, D,.curved knives E, E, are attached, one to each.

These knives are of semicircular form and the two knives cross each other, recesses e, being made in the knives near their junction with the bars so that each knife may receive its fellow, an elliptical opening f' being formed between them as shown clearly7 in Fig. 2. The recesses c, are made of sufficient length to permit of a requisite degree of play of the knives E E. F, is a lever, one end of which is attached by a fulcrum pin g, to an upright z., attached to one side of the box A. This lever extends over the top of the box A, and has a wooden pin z', passing through it at about its center, said pin projecting a short distance through the lever and having a shoulder or head j, on its upper end, and a key 7c, passes through it below the lever, the key 7c, preventing the pin being forced out of the lever. To one side of the board C, and in line with the upright 7L, a guide Z, is attached for the lever F, the bot-tom of the guide also serving as a stop to the lever F.

The box A, may be constructed of wood, the tube B, of metal. The knives of course are of steel. The lever F, may be of wood.

The operation is as follows The peaches one at a` time, shown in red and designated by G, are placed on the knives E, E, either the bloom or stem end down. The furrow or creased side of the peaches being in line with the bars D, so that the larger or major diameters of the stone H, will correspond with the major diameter of the elliptical opening f, see Fig. 2, the stone being shown in red. The peach being thus placed the lever F, is pressed down by the operator, and the pin z', bears on the upper end of the peach which is forced down, the knives E, E, dividing the flesh or pulp while the stone I-I, is forced down through the orifice of the tube B, the stone falling into a receptacle prepared to receive it, underneath the box A, and the cut portions of the peach falling into the box A. The knives E, E, yield or give as vthe stone is forced between them, and the strength of the springs may be regulated by adjusting the screws (Z, (l.

Bythis invention peaches may be out for drying with great rapidity and the pulp or iesh will be cut as clean from the stone as if done directly by hand. The device is simple and may be constructed at a small cost.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let- B, and the several parts arranged relatively ters Patent, is-v with each other so that the stones H, Will 10 1. The'knives E, E, curved and crossing be separated from the pulp or flesh substaneach other as shown, and attached to the tially as described.

5 elastic bars D, D, in combination With the JOHN C. KUHN.

lever F, provided with the pin Witnesses:

2. I further claim `the above parts when JACOB J. SNIDER.

placed on the box A, provided with a tube JAMES LOGAN, Jr. 

